Ski resorts in Africa

How we picked

African skiing is short, often unreliable, and almost always small. That is the appeal. Oukaïmeden in the Moroccan High Atlas is the headline act at 2620 m with 7 lifts and Mt Toubkal as the backdrop; Mischliffen and a handful of Middle Atlas resorts add cedar-forest skiing near Ifrane. Algeria runs Chréa above Blida and the Djurdjura pair of Tikjda and Tala-Guilef. Afriski in Lesotho is the highest base in Africa (3050 m) and skis southern-hemisphere winter June to August, joined by South Africa's Tiffindell. Ski Egypt in Cairo is indoor and year-round. None of this is the Alps. All of it is improbable in the best way.